There were five more break-ins reported this weekend on top of several similar crimes the previous weekend, police said. In most cases, the burglar has come in through a screen or window while people are home.

Brooke Richards was out mowing her lawn at her Walnut Street house in Manchester at 9:45 a.m. Sunday when she saw a man she didn’t recognize walking in the alley near her home.

“I mean, we locked eye to eye. I looked right at him,” Richards said.

She described the man as white, in his early 30s, tall and slender with a neat haircut.

“I came to the side of my house to start to water my flowers and my door was wide open, screen folded in half,” Richards said.

She said the man was only inside a few minutes and he rummaged through purses, stole a couple of scratch tickets and her coin jar where she kept her vacation fund. She said the burglary was scary.

“I feel extremely violated,” Richards said. “I mean, I’ve lived here for over 20 years and this has never happened, ever.”

Her upstairs tenant was also home at the time and didn’t hear anything.

“It’s scary. It’s horrifying,” said Peter Murphy. “I mean, you think you’re safe at home. It’s a nice easy day. Everyone’s out and about in the yard and then boom, you get broken into.”

The Sunday morning break-in has rattled longtime neighbors on the street and changed a lot for Richards, a longtime homeowner.

“I can’t even have my windows open now,” she said. “It does change. So, it’s sad and it’s scary, but he’s not going to get me again, I’ll tell you that.”

Richards said she is adding security to her home.

Police said residents should consider installing safety stops on their windows that prevented people from getting into a home on Laurel Street this weekend the second time that home was targeted.